Monday, November 23, 2009

More Random Pics

Found these lurking in my HD:


Made this to see what Halifax would look like as an IECC ;D
Not my program, I used the SimSig game font (and some photoshop hackjobbery) to mock it up. No claims of accuracy, operational or otherwise is intended ;D

Halifax is a bit odd.  (Link: The one and only online picture of the interior of Halifax signal box) Hard to see the switch panel at the bottom there. Up until September, it was Track Circuit Block controlled, from Greetland (Built in 1942), and Milner Royd Junction (Built in *1878*), despite them both being lever frames.. and Absolute Block (for about 4 miles, then TCB again!) to Mill Lane SB at Bradford. Greetland was closed for several years, then reopened in 2000, and now finally closed in 2009, along with Elland, with control passing to Healey Mills, now TCB to Halifax.
Not much at Halifax any more, compare to 1908:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/3241202194/

Something REALLY old:

The experiments a C#, and Signaller. This was before WPF came along. Ugly! though it does show a few glimmers of ideas that would be carried forward. The lists are colour coded for things like speed, lateness, etc, The Departures window showing a customizable list of upcoming station departures, and to the right of that, the Upcoming Train entry list of when and where new trains are expected to enter your control area.

The thing at the top is an 'overview' of the entire system that allowed you to click somewhere and have the main view jump there. It even showed where the main view was on it. Not bad for a first go at both a program and a language...

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